Ohio Cities on the most dangerous list…

I woke up hearing it on the clock radio this morning. Columbus is waaaaaay down on the list.

From what I found looking at a bunch of different sources…. according to ”City Crime Rankings, 14th Edition” from CQ Publishing:

Cleveland is 10th

Youngstown is 15th

Cincinnati is 16th

Dayton is 19th

I was in Detroit this weekend… Detroit is number one on the list. I am not sure I was ever really in Detroit though I may have just been in the suburbs. It is 300 + cities… It is cities with population of 75,000 + . That may be a stretch to compare / rank Detroit MI against a city with a population of 75,000.

I of course hopped out of bed to Google the news… and see where Columbus was on this list. The report by CQ Press has riled up cities, mayors, police chiefs and the FBI. The stats used to make the ranking come from FBI stats but may not be used correctly… according to much of the commentary about the report.

I don’t want to say anything bad about Cleveland for fear Carol Cohen will hunt me down. That being said, I have a strong dislike for the camera speed traps in the city that DISCRIMINATES against anyone that drives faster than 34 miles per hour. My parents dislike it too, since I was driving their car and the tickets….yes plural…were mailed to them.